Charles C. Conley


Charles Cameron Conley was an American mathematician who worked on dynamical systems.
Conley was born in Royal Oak, Michigan. Starting in 1949, he attended Wayne State University in Detroit for one year before he joined the Air Force. After four and a half years in the Air Force, mostly stationed in England, he returned to Wayne State, where he earned a B.S. degree in 1957 and an M.S. degree in 1958. He then moved to Boston, where he earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 under the supervision of Jürgen Moser. After a postdoc at New York University's Courant Institute, he took up in 1963 an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was promoted to full Professor in 1968.
The Conley index theory and the Conley–Zehnder theorem are named after him.

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